Cloud computing is one of the most important trends in technology innovation but its widespread adoption by individual’s remains unexplored. The main purpose of this paper is to examine behavioural intentions towards cloud computing in an educational setting through the use of social cognitive theory. A survey questionnaire was tested amongst a sample of young consumers to develop an understand...

Chapter 1 introduced psychopathy and evaluated theories attempting to explain this disorder. Experiment 1 assessed passive avoidance learning in children with psychopathic tendencies. Results replicated previous findings with psychopathic adults indicating that this disorder is associated with poor passive avoidance learning. Experiment 2 developed a connectionist model of passive avoidance lea...

The purpose of this study is to compare the social lifestyle of employed women and housewives in Gilane-Gharb (case study: young women aged 25-40Years old). The sampling method was clustered and the sample size of 400 people was based on Cochran's formula with the help of a researcher-made questionnaire, which included 100 questions. The necessary information was added to the data. The result s...

Social research is inherently comparative (Lieberson, 1985). Researchers compare the relative effects of variables across cases; they compare cases directly with one another; and they compare empirical cases with counterfactual cases. But the comparative method – sometimes referred to as ‘smallN comparison’ – constitutes a distinctive approach to understanding social phenomena. Frequently, comp...

This article contributes to the social networks literature by examining how corporate governance factors influence CEOs’ external advice-seeking behaviors. We incorporate insights from social networks research into an agency theory perspective to predict, and demonstrate empirically, that governance factors recommended by agency theory increase CEOs’ tendencies to seek out advice contacts who a...

The development of an adequate assessment instrument is a necessary prerequisite for social psychological research on loneliness. Two studies provide methodological refinement in the measurement of loneliness. Study 1 presents a revised version of the self-report UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Loneliness Scale, designed to counter the possible effects of response bias in the origi...

Official statistics on suicides among children and adolescents in West Germany and Japan were used to compare transcultural social and psychiatric data on 108 German and 103 Japanese suicides and attempted suicides. This analysis revealed characteristic differences with respect to the following variables: ratio of attempted and accomplished suicide, age, method, integrating problems at school, ...